Box for keeping carbon-paper.



PATENTED JULY 7, 1908.

I. o. GOTTSGHALK. BOX FOR KEEPING CARBON PAPER.

AP PLIUATION FILED DBO. 6, 1906.

FREDERICK O. GOTTSCHALK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOX FOR KEEPING CARBON-PAPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July '7, 1908.

Application filed December 6, 1906. Serial No. 346,537.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK O. GOTT- sonALx, a subject of the Emperorof Germany, and a resident of New York, in the county and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boxes forKeeping Carbon-Paper, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in a box for keeping carbonpaper.

It is the special object of this invention to produce a box for keepingcarbon paper by means of which single sheets of carbon paper may beremoved from said box without destroying, coiling, or partly rolling upthe adjacent sheets.

Heretofore the paper boxes in which the carbon sheets were sold havebeen used for keeping the carbon paper at the ollice. When it isrequired to remove one or several sheets of carbon paper from this paperbox the sheets immediately below were disturbed by the pulling out ofthe one or several sheets and coiled and displaced. By the use of mynovel box for keeping carbon paper the described deficiencies of thepresent paper boxes are avoided. Slight pressure is I exerted near thoseends of the carbon paper sheets which are at the other end of the boxfrom where the sheets are removed.

In addition to the main objects of this invention it has been sought tokeep the cost of construction low although the novel box may bepermanently used and the contents of the commercial 1paper boxes inwhich the carbon paper is so c permanent box for keeping.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 represents in perspective view a box which embodies indesirable form the present improvements. Fig. 2 shows same inlongitudinal section on line 2, 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a longitudinalsection showing the box artly opened, and Fig. 4 is a longitudinalsection like Fig. 2 showing the box filled with carbon paper.

Similar characters of reference denote like parts in all the figures.

The box illustrated consists of an open box of the usual shape and sizefor carbon paper. However the box has no cover with overlapping sides.The part representing the cover fits into the interior of the box and isprovided with a handle near one end of same l are put into my novelcover to move up and down within the box at its other end.

The box is preferably made of metal which may be japanned, varnished,lacquered or otherwise decorated by fancy paper and the like in order toenhance the appearance. The box may also be made of wood, celluloid orother artificial composition.

In the drawing a box is represented which is usually of oblong'shape asshown. The front side a of the box is of usual construction while thelong sides a a have each an enlargement b, b on its rear end. Thisnecessitates that the narrow rear side a is somewhat larger than thefront side a. By means of the enlargement b, b a littlespace is createdwithin the box. The cover 0 is flat at the bottom and has near its frontend a handle (Z while its rear end 6 is turned over forming a channeladapted to receive an inner core f which extends beyond the ends of thechannel into the spaces formed by the extensions b, b at the rear end ofthe box. The channel and core are preferably circular in shape as shownand form a hinge like arrangement. It is plainly seen that the rear endof the cover with channel and core may be moved up and down within thespaces above mentioned in accordance with the quantity of carbon papercontained in the box.

The box is used substantially in the following manner: The contents of apaper box which usually contains 100 sheets of carbon paper is removedfrom the paper box in which it was sold into the box forming the subjectmatter of this invention. The cover 0 is lifted by means of the handle duntil the cover practically assumes a vertical position. Now the carbonpaper is placed into the box and the cover let down when the box will bein the condition shown in Fig. 4. If it is desired to remove one orseveral sheets of the carbon paper the cover is lifted, say as far asshown in Fig. 3, and one or more sheets taken out which are easilyremoved while the rest of the carbon paper is held down by virtue of theslight pressure exerted by the rear part of the cover which as shown inFigs. 2, 3 and 4 is rounded below and therefore can not damage the papercontained in the box.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent A box for holding carbon paper which device is adaptedfor the removal of the individual sheets singly without disturbing theremaining contents consisting of a box proper having a lateral extensionon each side of its rear end portion of same height as the box, andcovered at the top flush with 5 the inner Wall, in combination with acover loosely fitted Within the box turned up in the rear forming ahinge channel, a core Within said channel extending beyond the ends ofsame adapted to have its ends moved up and down Within the lateralextensions of the 10 box, and a handle near the front end of the cover.

Signed at New York, N. Y. this 5th. day of December, 1906.

FREDERICK C. GOTTSCHALK. Witnesses:

LUDWIG K. BoHM, CATHERINE M. MANNING.

